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HEALTHY LIVING
you can create new empowering money patterns in your life,
get clear on what you want to acquire money for and how to mindfully spend it.
Facilitator: Inga Michaelsen. See bio on page 60.
Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2015
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost: $75 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Oct 3, 2015
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The Anti-In ammatory Diet
PEHL030
In ammation is now recognized as a common contributor
to a range of chronic health problems, from heart disease and asthma to arthritis and colitis. Explore how and why in ammation occurs in the body, how certain conditions such as diabetes and obesity perpetuate in ammation, and how diet can be used to reduce the degree of in ammation
we experience. Learn about food sensitivities and allergies, elimination diets and what de nes a healthy, balanced, anti-in ammatory diet.
Facilitator: Maureen Williams. See bio on page 65.
Length: 1 half day
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Time: 9am-1pm
Cost: $45 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Apr 2, 2016
Dare to Age Well
in Community: Learn About Senior Co-Housing
PEHL034
Longevity is a fact of life for more Canadians now than ever before – don’t let this become a burden to you and others. You can move beyond denial and acquire tools for aging well. This course adapts senior cohousing, an established housing strategy in Europe but new to Canada,
to completely reframe our societal expectations and options for aging. Community and creativity are keys to ourishing: learn how to grow old with passion!
Facilitator: Margaret Critchlow
(see bio on page 52) and Andrew Moore (see bio on page 60).
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Oct 24-Sun, Oct 25, 2015 Time: 9:30am-4:30pm
Cost: $135 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Oct 10, 2015
Dying Well: Making Conscious Choices about This Grand Transition
PEHL037
Besides birth, death is the most important event in life; however, many have not thought about it much, if at all, especially within a youth-obsessed culture that embraces a medical model that refers to dying as “failure”.
We will take a closer look into death and our natural capacities to support the dying process including choices regarding:
death care, home funerals, green burial, vigil, memorial, ceremony and nal wishes. We will investigate options even legalities, and envision a “good death”.
Facilitators: Sue Muirhead
(see bio on page 61) and
Damian John (see bio on page 56). Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Nov 21-Sun, Nov 22, 2015 Time: Sat, 10am-4pm; Sun, 10am-3pm Cost: $155 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Nov 7, 2015
Fermentation at Home
PEHL032
Fermentation is an age old method of curing vegetables
or fruits for a longer shelf life and to increase digestibility. It’s becoming more popular
as science is uncovering how many health bene ts there
are associated with lacto- fermentation. Another tool
to assist our bodies’ ability to thrive! In this workshop we’ll de-mystify home fermentation, making and tasting, sauerkraut, beet kvass, fermented vegetables and kombucha.
Facilitator: Cindy Meiklejohn. See bio on page 60.
Length: 1 half day
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016
Time: 1pm-4pm
Cost: $55 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Jan 2, 2016
From Aging to Sage-ing: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life PEHL035
Becoming an “elder” doesn’t just happen. It is the result
of conscious preparation and choices at all levels. Explore
a conscious way to grow old with dignity, wisdom and a sense of value as a human being through guided imagery, meditation, journaling and discussion. Examine and envision your emerging life
– one that is ful lling and bene cial to yourself and others by discovering how mentoring means leaving a non- nancial legacy in the age of the sage.
Facilitator: Nancy Gray-Hemstock (see bio on page 56) and Annie Klein (see bio on page 58).
Length: 2 non-consecutive days Date: Sat, Mar 12 & Sat, Mar 19, 2016 Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: $135 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Sat, Feb 27, 2016
Grief and the Soulful Life PEHL040
In a world caught up in the business of coming out ahead on life’s great balance sheet, present day society leaves
little room for mourning
when mourning is called for. Venture into the rich terrain of grief and broken-heartedness to discover how to let life’s many small and big endings have their way with us and
turn us into persons of soulful depth as well as persons to hold out a steadying arm to others facing endings of their own.
Facilitator: Rachelle Lamb. See bio on page 58. Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2016
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PERSONAL ENRICHMENT